Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-23
WILL THE PEsPLE SUBMIT TO IT.


The people of California should keep it
in view that the Mechanics Institute Fair
management at San Francisco is private
association, run for private gain. 1t is
now engaged in an effort TO crush out all
the District Fairs and the State Fair, and
draw into its capacious NAV the vitality
of all the interior expositions of the State.
The people of the interior who know
the value of the local fairs to them and to
all the State, should respond to this
shameful attempt to absorb vitality and
broaden the impression that San Francisco
is the State and that outside of it nothing
can be done, with very active and, if need
be, a bitter antagonism.
They ought to resolve not to exhibit at
the San Francisco show; not to attend it {;
not to give it patronage, or an iota of sup
port, moral OR material
All great cities are largely dependent
for the support of places of entertainment
upon the transient public, the influx from
the interior, the current Of travel, and Wis
ltation by strangers. Now let the people
OF the interior make the San Francisco
concern feel the force of their indignation
by booming every district and county fair,
inducing the strangers here, and to come
here, to visit the interior, by redoubling
their energies for the success of the State
Fair.
The showmen, hotel and boarding house
keepers, pocket-lining fair managers and
the shopmen of San Francisco, have en-
tered into a conspiracy to grasp all the
spare change of our people, and if strangers,
by killing off all local expositions and
preventing the disbursement, except in
San Francisco, Of any of themoney usually
spent during the fair season in the inte-
rior. The question is, evil the people
of the agricultural counties be parties to
this scheme%
We do not believe they will; they have
local pride sufficient and selfinterest
enough to defeat the conspirators. With
out interior aid the San Francisco Fair
can he only local shop-show, and to that
level it ought to descend, because the man
agement has meanly and insultingly
stretched the period of the San Francisco
exhibition over the dates that include the
very best of the district fairs, and this
without a particle of reason or a solitary
excuse.
The Institute management has sent
out its agents to solicit the people of the
interior TO furnish it the means for making
a great exhibition at the expense of all
others Of the State, and have backed its
agents with money pledged by capital in
San Francisco. The sole and only pur-
pose, we repeat, is to paralyze every local
agricultural and the State Agricult-
ural Society, that private gains may
be augmented. 1t is short-sighted, selfish
and grasping policy, and can only succeed
by the acquiescence of thepeople of the in
terror. We repeat, no one wishes the San
Francisco Fair to be otherwise than sue
cessful, so long as it keeps within the
bounds of its legitimate and defensible
purpose. But there is time enough for all
the fairs without particle of conflict. 1t
is, therefore, the most unwise policy i'm
aginable for one concern to attempt to alb
sorb all the energy and capacity of the
people to maintain expositions of the pro-
ducts of the State in the agricultural
regions. The District Fairs and the State
Fair have been adjusted as to season and
place, so as to put our products on exhibi-
tion in many sections of the State during
the summer and fall, thus greatly enhanc-
ing the value of these expositions. To
that end they have secured State aid.
They must not nov by the Vaccinations
of an interested few in San Francisco be
crippled by an opposition, as is clearly the
purpose of the Mechanics Institute con-
Germ, that the Golfers of the syndicate that
conducts it may be filled.